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Belarus has hosted over 160,000 arrivals since the launch of the visa-waiver program for the neighboring EU countries, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.
Since 1 January 2023, Belarus has hosted 160,383 visa-waiver travelers from the neighboring countries of the European Union: 106,257 citizens of Lithuania, 30,974 citizens and 9,060 non-citizens of Latvia, and 14,092 Polish citizens.
Since the launch of the visa-waiver program for the neighboring countries...
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More than 66% of Belarusians consider state symbols as the main national symbol of Belarus, Nikolai Sukhotsky, Deputy Director for Science and Innovations at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, said as he cited findings of a telephone poll in an interview with BelTA.
The Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus conducted a telephone interview survey “Public opinion on the events of the Great Patriotic War,...
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Belarus is committed to agreements on realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus, the national coordinator on reaching the Sustainable Development Goals Valery Belsky mentioned it as he met with Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia of the United Nations Development Coordination Office (UNDCO) Gwi-Yeop Son, BelTA has learned.
Valery Belsky said: “We are glad that our contacts...